A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.

Floating high on the waters of catastrophe

And what can still delight an inert stone except to become, once more, the bed of a raging torrent?

On its own, having escaped my grasp, the spool I had loosed was unwinding.

...a redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared its nocturnal mysteries.

Starting strong is impressive but ending strong is legendary.

Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.

Careful with your life.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.

I think I am a pretty good sister.

Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

Be wary of great leaders.

Married or Single? There is no good choice. It's like when your doctor says, 'Ointment?' or 'Suppositories'?

I loved my husband very much, and it was heartbreaking to have him develop Alzheimer's disease, and to stand by and watch him decline in his ability to take care of himself.